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Water diverted from the Mississippi River spills through a bay in the Morganza Spillway in Morganza, La., on Saturday, May 14, 2011. A steel, 10-ton floodgate was raised for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the river, away from heavily populated areas downstream. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (right) speaks with workers Thursday while viewing levee construction work with Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, in Krotz Springs, La., during a tour of areas that may be affected by flooding if the Morganza Spillway north of Baton Rouge is opened. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Health may be the biggest impediment as Tiger Woods, with 14 major championships, chases Jack Nicklaus' record of 18. Woods' most recent victory in a major was the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines.
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Seth Robinson, 4, stands Thursday in Yazoo River floodwaters that have inundated his father's corn crop near Yazoo City, Miss. Thousands of acres of farmland are underwater as Mississippi River tributaries back up.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A carp tries to swim from the backwater flooding cornfields near Yazoo City, Miss., on Thursday. Fish displaced by the flooding of the Mississippi River and its tributaries are trying to return to their natural environment as people and animals head for higher ground.
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Matthias Eggert, Gatow Forest Ranger and Licensed Boar Hunter inspects the damage caused by wild boars (Sus scrofa) in the forest in Gatower Heide in the far western part of Berlin. Growing wild boar populations have become an increasing problem in urban parts of the city of Berlin. Attracted in part by people feeding them and by the food found in the garbage they have migrated far into the center of town where they damage and destroy gardens and parks in their search for food. (Harald Franzen/Special to The Washington Times)
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The home at 3738 N. 3oth Place in Arlington's Bellevue Forest neighborhood is on the market for $949,000.
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The main level of the Hampton model features a center-island kitchen with a breakfast area and walk-in pantry. Upstairs, the master suite has a den, two walk-in closets and a master bath with a soaking tub and separate shower.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Friends and family help build a sandbag wall around the home of Michael Davis (not pictured) in preparation of impending flooding from the likely diversion of Mississippi River floodwaters into the Atchafalaya Basin in Stephensville, La., on Wednesday.
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Floodwaters invade downtown Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday. The historic city, site of a pivotal Civil War battle, has been one of the hardest hit along the Mississippi River. All along the river's path, residents are worried about the flood's impact on homes and farmland. (Associated Press)
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Disaster survivors react as they watch a performance onstage. Sometimes only a few chuckles come from the audience made up of people who survived an earthquake, then a tsunami, and are now living in a shelter.
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Takayuki Kato, performing as Sanyutei Kyoraku, entertains during a fundraiser for survivors of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami at Culture Hall in Ichinoseki in northeastern Japan. (Associated Press)
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The Pyramid Arena sits protected by a flood wall from the swollen Mississippi River on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, in Memphis, Tenn. The Mississippi crested in Memphis at nearly 48 feet on Tuesday, falling short of its all-time record but still soaking low-lying areas with enough water to require a massive cleanup. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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At Texas A&M, Mark Turgeon often was looking up at Big 12 powers Kansas and Texas. In the ACC, it will be Duke and North Carolina. (Associated Press)
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA L. SALISBURY / THE WASHINGTON TIMES Metro officials (above, from left) Bob Golden, Jack Requa and Richard Sarles ride Tuesday on a new Xcelsior XDE40 bus while Robert Miles (below) drives. The new hybrid-electric models are about two feet shorter and 3,000 pounds lighter than existing Metro buses but can seat several more people.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Cars stand submerged in overflow water from the Wolf River on McMiller Road in Memphis, Tenn. After weeks of rising to historic levels, the Mississippi River reached a crest just shy of the forecasted 48 feet at the Memphis gauge.
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Robert and Carrie Medders and their daughter, Aleigha, 6, take advantage of the swollen Mississippi River floodwaters to cool off on Tuesday in Memphis, Tenn.
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Delegate Carolyn J.B. Howard
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Afghan soldiers and U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force check inside the Traffic Department building, a Taliban stronghold, after a two-day assault in Kandahar, south of Kabul, on Monday.
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A villager is helped to wear protective gloves at a gymnasium for a brief visit to their houses located near the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, for the first time since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, in Kawauchi, Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
